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Les téléspectateurs fatigués de la pandémie pourraient être prompts à rejeter l’adaptation de la bande dessinée de Netflix, Sweet Tooth, comme étant mal venue ou même gratuite. La version live de la série de bandes dessinées post-apocalyptiques de Jeff Lemire sur un virus mortel a commencé à être produite avant que le COVID-19 ne balaie le monde, mais a continué à être filmée tout au long de celui-ci, en intégrant des images de signes d’exclusion sociale et de combats sur le port de masques qui donnent à la série un sentiment d’actualité affligeant.

But the spectators who manage to exceed the fatigue of the moment will be rewarded with a magnificent and dark fairy tale on the complexities of the family.Weaving three disparate intrigues that end up crossing, the series offers three different visions of life after a devastating pandemic, each being shaped by the reaction of its characters at the end of the world.

The story takes place a decade after an illness has killed most of humanity and that, in one way or another, all new babies were born in the form of human hybrids-animals.The intrigue is centered on GUS (Christian Convery), a young deer raised in peaceful isolation within the Yosemite National Park.When his sanctuary is disrupted, he puts himself under the supervision of the former football star Tommy Jepperd (Nonso Anozie) to try to find his mother in Colorado.

The dynamics between Gus and Jlower, or Sweet Tooth and Big Man, as they are called each other, strongly recalls The Mandalorian, with a willed and violent sought after man who finds a chance to redeem himself by taking careof a very special child.The first half of the eight episodes season particularly resembles the Disney Plus show, filled with episodic adventures where the duo meets a wide range of enemies and potential allies in the wild world.

Co-showrunners Jim Mickle and Beth Schwartz have designed a fairly loose adaptation of Lemire's comics, improving them in all points of view.For example, the BD animal army is a generic cult of Mad Max type led by a psychopath with a pack of boys-chiens.In the Netflix version, the group is another example of the recent trend in comics adaptations to tell stories of generational conflicts.The teenager tribe has sworn to protect the hybrids of adults they accuse of ruining the world, and they have been leading violent raids since their base in an abandoned amusement park.They carry amazing costumes inspired by their favorite animals, and their aesthetics and their behavior resemble a combination of the lost boys of Hook and the vampires of the lost boys of 1987.

The female characters of Lemire's comics are perpetual victims, but Bear (Stefania Lavie Owen), head of the Army animal, helps to solve this problem in the series by offering a fierce counterweight to Jepperd.The character of Aimee (Dania Ramirez of Once Upon a Time and Heroes), a socially withdrawn therapist who finds a new goal by adopting a hybrid child, was invented for the series for the same purpose, but is not particularly gooddeveloped.The writers seem to follow the model of the series The Witcher of Netflix, which brings together all the characters of its three intrigues only in the finale of season 1.But this plan gives them the impression of remembering a little too much for season 2.

The darkest intrigue of the series is that of Aditya Singh (Adeel Akhtar), a doctor who served on the front line of the pandemic and took care of some of the first hybrid babies.It is the embodiment of the exhaustion of compassion that has prompted so many health professionals to consider leaving their jobs during the past year, and Adeel Akhtar does phenomenal work in his descent of a caregiverBright eyes, eager to help relieve the misfortunes of his patients, to a haggard character, in shock, who tends ambushes to new parents by asking them what kind of animal their newborn looks like.

Singh and his wife Rani (Aliza Vellani) find refuge in an apparently intact suburb where they can sip mojitos and play board games with the neighbors.Like images of people stretching during major festivals or crowded beaches for the spring holidays that circulated in 2020, this community seems to exist in another world, and it is built on the same insensitive contempt for well-beingothers.The neighbors turn against each other at the first sign of infection, and Rani's life literally depends on the murder of hybrid children.

Sweet Tooth is far from being a perfect series.Neil Sandilands has already played the villain The Thinker in The Flash, but he does not bring any of the nuances of this character to his interpretation of General Steven Abbot, the leader of a militia known as Last Men, who thinks thathybrids must all be killed or used for experiences.With his large bushy beard and his glasses tinged with red, one has the impression that he is inspired by Doctor Robotnik by Jim Carrey, and his behavior and his morality are just as caricatured.

The series also presents serious inconsistencies.Jepperd's dependence on analgesics to treat an old knee injury is a major element of the plot at the start of the series, but it disappears as soon as it has bigger problems to manage.There is no valid reason for the animal army to have internet access, except that it is necessary to provide the next index to find GUS's mother.In a flashback scene, a scientist warns that the virus could kill millions of people.Millions of people have already died from COVID-19 without civilization, but it may have underestimated the propagation of the disease.

Fortunately, we can ignore these questions and just appreciate the emotional heart of the series, which is based on an extremely solid main casting.Christian Convery embodies Gus, who gives off a childish naivety and optimism that even contaminates the most cynical and weary characters in the world he meets.He always has the desires of a child for things like candies, his favorite plush animal and the company, which leads to many misadventures and problems for those who come to love him.

There is a grotesque side in the art of Lemire, especially in its hybrid drawings, but the series has a much more cute aesthetic.The special effects team has done excellent work with details like the way GUS's deer ears contract independently, or how the Porcine girl Wendy (Naledi Murray) folds the nose by feeling the kitchen ofhis mother, or laughing with a big growl.An effect where Gus's eyes light up in darkness is particularly striking, both for the characters who witness it and for the public.Summary images are a little less good, especially when used to fully animate more animated hybrids.

Although it takes place in the west of the United States, Sweet Tooth was filmed in New Zealand during the pandemic, and it is a visually breathtaking work, filled with spectacular landscapes and images of nature taking theNot on civilization.Zoo animals escaped run through the big plains, and vibrant purple flowers are a strange pre-courier sign of the propagation of the virus.

The violence of the show is brief but spectacular, the directors using various tactics to give only a glimpse of what is happening, for example by making the invaders fight by Jetperd in the dark between two lightnings, or by concentrating the perspective onthe characters inside a building while a battle takes place just outside.It is a clever way to avoid showing blood effusions while making people understand that this is always a very dangerous world.

Covid-19's pandemic devastated certain communities, while others seemed to deny its existence completely.Sweet Tooth combines the examination of this inequality with the morality of other excellent post-apocalyptic stories, as 28 days later and Mad Max: Fury Road, who maintain that survival is not enough for people to work.The bad guys of Sweet Tooth are those who cling to a world that no longer exists, while the heroes try to build something better with the help of their found family.The subject of Sweet Tooth may seem too dark for the current era, but its news strengthens the message of hope and shared strength of the series.

The eight episodes of the first season of Sweet Tooth are now available in streaming on Netflix.